08/23/2026
I wanted to share something with y'all that a lot of people don't know about me. I shared this with some people who are really special to me recently, and it hit me — I should just share it with everyone. My first car when I was in Virginia Beach was a blue, rusty hoopty. It had an oil leak so bad I could drive about 20 miles before it ran dry. But as long as I kept oil in it, that thing got me everywhere — Norfolk, Hampton, wherever I needed to be.
That first year in Virginia Beach was hard. I'd moved out on my own, down the beach, nobody checking on me, figuring it out as I went. I was recording an album under Sony Music at the time, and that hoopty is what got me to the studio — every session, every late night, watching that gas needle and doing the math on how many miles I had left before I needed to pull over and pour more oil in. I didn't have much back then. Just that car and a reason to keep showing up. And it never let me down when it counted.
I had that hoopty a whole year. Never once looked at it and said I needed something better. It wasn't much — but it was mine, and it got me where I needed to go.
I'd take that rusty blue hoopty and its oil leak all over again.
The point is — you use what you have. 2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.